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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 22, 2023 9:44:48 GMT
Hah, I’m glad someone else finally thought that! After some of the reviews on here I thought I was going mad. Utter toss.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2023 9:46:57 GMT
Soon as I saw it had Idris in it, I knew it would be gash.
Watched The Servant instead and happy I did.
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Post by kal on Aug 22, 2023 11:36:48 GMT
Hah, I’m glad someone else finally thought that! After some of the reviews on here I thought I was going mad. Utter toss. I hadn’t read any other comments about it. I’m really surprised it was well received. It was absolutely terrible. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 22, 2023 11:56:02 GMT
Any fans of Invasion? The promo for season 2 makes it look quite face paced and energetic but I tried S1 Ep 1 and found it a struggle. I thought S1 was pretty wank. Absolutely glacial pace and stuffed with really bad characters doing dumb stuff. Can’t wait for S2. |
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Post by muddyfunster on Aug 22, 2023 13:03:30 GMT
Finished Hijack last night. What a load of shit. I thought Apple were going for HBO levels? This wouldn’t have been out of place on ITV or Channel 5. First episode had some promise but it just gets less and less believable as it goes in and by the end pretty much nothing any character does makes sense. Acting is woeful for the most part as well. Total waste of time. I shared similar thoughts in the ratings thread. The way they just abandoned plausibility more and more made me genuinely angry by the end. The first couple of episodes are so unrepresentative. Clearly they had no real plan for resolving the various threads they'd set up with any credibility or at all in some cases. |
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Post by ozthegweat on Aug 22, 2023 15:10:15 GMT
Any fans of Invasion? The promo for season 2 makes it look quite face paced and energetic but I tried S1 Ep 1 and found it a struggle. I thought S1 was pretty wank. Absolutely glacial pace and stuffed with really bad characters doing dumb stuff. Can’t wait for S2. It was SOOOOOOOO boring. Could have been a two-hour movie. It's been a while, but I think I remember the storyline with the schoolkids to be incredibly annoying. Cool aliens though. |
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Post by oldskooldeano on Aug 29, 2023 9:13:42 GMT
Foundation S2 has me hooked. Smashed through six episodes at the weekend. Day is as riveting as ever. Lady Demerel is well suspicious. It’s settled down to be a bit more straightforward although where it’s going I don’t know. It’s been more than 30 years since I read the books.
Best shots of ‘spaceship in orbit around a planet’ in the game!
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 29, 2023 9:43:36 GMT
Season 2 is far better than the random shit that happened in Season 1, still have no idea what's going on with keeping Salvor alive this long but I suppose this is the problem with doing a TV show about a story that spans 100's of years.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 29, 2023 9:44:50 GMT
S2 has really upped the game. Its probably the best sci-fi around at the moment.
On the flipside, Invasion S2 seems to be completely based around the lady mooning over her girlfriend and playing david bowie again, so BAU for that load of shit.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 29, 2023 11:34:09 GMT
Yeah I was VERY surprised Invasion received a second season.
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Post by muddyfunster on Aug 30, 2023 12:08:56 GMT
Foundation S2 has me hooked. Smashed through six episodes at the weekend. Day is as riveting as ever. Lady Demerel is well suspicious. It’s settled down to be a bit more straightforward although where it’s going I don’t know. It’s been more than 30 years since I read the books. Best shots of ‘spaceship in orbit around a planet’ in the game! I find it good but less than the sum of its parts. Certainly enough to keep watching. It looks fantastic and must have been hugely expensive. The cast is pretty good too. There's some terrific sci-fi ideas and fun concepts. Yet I've never been gripped by it and wanted to binge episode after episode, which is something that the likes of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica have managed. I think it might be the characters. They aren't bad but I've got no attachment to any of them. |
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 9, 2023 16:18:39 GMT
Latest episode of Foundation is just fucking insanity, for those who aren't watching but did watch Babylon 5, this was its Severed Dreams.
Incredible stuff, as I'm on holiday next week I may have to watch the season finale on my bloody phone, which is obviously not ideal but I'm not sure I can wait to get home.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Sept 9, 2023 23:43:41 GMT
Looks like it'll be good:
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Post by oldskooldeano on Sept 10, 2023 16:03:45 GMT
Latest episode of Foundation is just fucking insanity, for those who aren't watching but did watch Babylon 5, this was its Severed Dreams. Incredible stuff, as I'm on holiday next week I may have to watch the season finale on my bloody phone, which is obviously not ideal but I'm not sure I can wait to get home. Absolutely agree with this. S2 E9 was a banger. As ol’ inappropriate touching DJ Westwood would say, ‘Hit after heavy hit’! |
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Sept 17, 2023 13:51:38 GMT
Finished Foundation.
They've done a great job with this. Especially given the scope and scale. Asimov has some great books and some not so much but they've always been incredible ideas.
I wasn't sure about Gaal at first but was great in the last few episodes. Brother Day is consistently excellent and General Riose was brilliant.
Great stuff.
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Post by oldskooldeano on Sept 18, 2023 20:57:11 GMT
I fucking hate those kids in Invasion. Thank you, that is all.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 12, 2023 21:01:00 GMT
I have a month to sort out some free/cheap Apple TV+...
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Post by Reviewer on Oct 12, 2023 21:05:49 GMT
Just bingeing For All Mankind S3 now, I thought S1 and S2 had a bit too much of the personal issues rather than the more interesting space drama. S3 is a massive step up, hopefully 4 continues that.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 12, 2023 21:24:21 GMT
S3 was fine apart from one thing the fucking Stevens brothers, especially Danny, JFC |
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Post by ignatiusjreilly on Oct 12, 2023 21:58:46 GMT
S1 was very good, S2 okay, S3 I didn't like much
S4 clip looked decent
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Post by SpiralScratch on Oct 13, 2023 9:01:57 GMT
S3 was fine apart from one thing the fucking Stevens brothers, especially Danny, JFC Yeah and generally too much of the soap opera situations for the Mars crews in general, it got ridiculous. Somewhat spoiled S3 for me, otherwise I was liking it better than S2. |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Oct 13, 2023 9:13:32 GMT
I have a month to sort out some free/cheap Apple TV+...
Birth of the MCR!  Can't wait. |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Oct 13, 2023 9:14:20 GMT
S3 was fine apart from one thing the fucking Stevens brothers, especially Danny, JFC Agreed. |
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Oct 17, 2023 7:17:55 GMT
I've finally got around to watching Silo, had it downloaded for a few months now. I started off sceptical but it's slowly burned away pulling me in. Really enjoying it after 4 episodes.
I'm not expecting the reveal to be world shattering but I'm a sucker for lore/background that suggests oversized senses of scale.
Also have foundation S2 lined up. Comments in here suggest in continues in quality which I'm excited for. S1 was awesome.
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Post by muddyfunster on Oct 17, 2023 9:39:29 GMT
Apple TV has had a run of very decent sci-fi, and it's probably the best service for the genre. It's really only been Invasion that was actively disappointing and I still hate watched it to the end.
I just hope they continue to support these series. All have amazing production values and must cost a fortune.
Still not really forgiven Netflix for cancelling The Expanse and Altered Carbon prematurely. At least one of those was somewhat rescued I suppose.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Oct 17, 2023 10:02:10 GMT
Has Invasion finished now? I might "hate watch" season 2 then just to see what the end was |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Oct 17, 2023 10:03:02 GMT
I've finally got around to watching Silo, had it downloaded for a few months now. I started off sceptical but it's slowly burned away pulling me in. Really enjoying it after 4 episodes. I'm not expecting the reveal to be world shattering but I'm a sucker for lore/background that suggests oversized senses of scale. Also have foundation S2 lined up. Comments in here suggest in continues in quality which I'm excited for. S1 was awesome. I read all about the book series after the cliffhanger end of Season 1 of Silo. It's interesting |
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 17, 2023 10:25:53 GMT
Even more expensive looking Apple TV SF, set after Godzilla (2014) with some stuff in the past too with Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt playing the same character.
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Post by muddyfunster on Oct 17, 2023 10:35:56 GMT
I've finally got around to watching Silo, had it downloaded for a few months now. I started off sceptical but it's slowly burned away pulling me in. Really enjoying it after 4 episodes. I'm not expecting the reveal to be world shattering but I'm a sucker for lore/background that suggests oversized senses of scale. Also have foundation S2 lined up. Comments in here suggest in continues in quality which I'm excited for. S1 was awesome. I read all about the book series after the cliffhanger end of Season 1 of Silo. It's interesting I really enjoyed the books, and always thought they'd make a decent TV series if a bit hard to represent visually. The first book, which is most of S1 is the most conventional of the three. Will be really interesting to see how much they decide they have to tinker to make a decent screenplay out of the rest. Without spoilers, the central mysteries are explained in the books in quite satisfying ways (to me at least). |
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Post by askew on Oct 17, 2023 10:42:15 GMT
Even more expensive looking Apple TV SF, set after Godzilla (2014) with some stuff in the past too with Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt playing the same character.
Finallly, the Gojira Cinematic Universe can start now! |
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